CVE-2024-58072
"RTLwifi Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerability"
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtlwifi: remove unused check_buddy_priv Commit 2461c7d60f9f ("rtlwifi: Update header file") introduced a global list of private data structures. Later on, commit 26634c4b1868 ("rtlwifi Modify existing bits to match vendor version 2013.02.07") started adding the private data to that list at probe time and added a hook, check_buddy_priv to find the private data from a similar device. However, that function was never used. Besides, though there is a lock for that list, it is never used. And when the probe fails, the private data is never removed from the list. This would cause a second probe to access freed memory. Remove the unused hook, structures and members, which will prevent the potential race condition on the list and its corruption during a second probe when probe fails.
INFO
Published Date :
March 6, 2025, 4:15 p.m.
Last Modified :
March 13, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
Source :
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Remotely Exploitable :
No
Impact Score :
Exploitability Score :
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CVE Modified by 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Mar. 13, 2025
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b9cbd8a9ae68b32099fbb03b2d5ffa0c5e0dcc9 Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e2fcc68fbaab3ad9f5671fee2be0956134b740a Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f801e754efa21bd61b3cc15ec7565696165b272f -
New CVE Received by 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Mar. 06, 2025
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtlwifi: remove unused check_buddy_priv Commit 2461c7d60f9f ("rtlwifi: Update header file") introduced a global list of private data structures. Later on, commit 26634c4b1868 ("rtlwifi Modify existing bits to match vendor version 2013.02.07") started adding the private data to that list at probe time and added a hook, check_buddy_priv to find the private data from a similar device. However, that function was never used. Besides, though there is a lock for that list, it is never used. And when the probe fails, the private data is never removed from the list. This would cause a second probe to access freed memory. Remove the unused hook, structures and members, which will prevent the potential race condition on the list and its corruption during a second probe when probe fails. Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/006e803af7408c3fc815b0654fc5ab43d34f0154 Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e39b0486cdb496cdfba3bc89886150e46acf6f4 Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2fdac64c3c35858aa8ac5caa70b232e03456e120 Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/465d01ef6962b82b1f0ad1f3e58b398dbd35c1c1 Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/543e3e9f2e9e47ded774c74e680f28a0ca362aee
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